Berlin adds 5 percent hotel tax in time for summer tourism boom
Photo Credit: Scribbles on the glass window of a hotel in Berlin, Germany. Flickr / Calinago
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Tourism is one of Berlin’s largest profit drivers and few international tourists, often one-timers, will notice the spike in their hotel bills.
Berlin's city government has decided to put a 5 percent tax on tourist hotel stays from this summer, part of efforts to shore up the German capital's finances.
The so-called "city tax" is to be cha
